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And, for more on East End Aquaculture, check out another article in today's paper featuring a family who farms shellfish on the west end of the Shinnecock Bay just due west of my house.....
"Prior to May, Jen Tiska of East Quogue, a stay-at-home mother of three, hardly considered herself a farmer. But now, she and her 7-year-old son, Richard, regularly don their aquaculturist hats and become the stewards of a farm that features 1,000 fledgling shellfish.
Once every three weeks, the pair ventures down to the Dune Road side of Shinnecock Bay, where they pull in a pair of cages using a clothesline pulley and inspect their crop of baby oysters. They clean their cages with a small wire brush that removes algae and make sure that their little mollusks are thriving, all in the hopes of increasing the shellfish population in the bay." MORE
2 comments:
Hi,
My name is Alanna. I wanted to thank you for your post on SPAT. I am doing a paper on the project and it was extremely helpful.
Also, I wanted to recommend a great book- "Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket" by Brian Halweil. So great and informative.
All the best,
Alanna
Alanna
I'm glad you enjoyed this article!
Also, I passed your comment along to Brian Halweil. You might check out his other writing brilliance..Brian is the editor/publisher of Edible East End, Edible Manhattan and Edible Brooklyn which are all part of the Edible Communities Publications. The fall issue link for East End: http://www.edibleeastend.com/fall-2009/fall-2009.htm.
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